Minecraft is pretty darn cool. Super Time Force is also pretty darn cool. Super Time Force *in* Minecraft is quite possibly the coolest.

We’re very happy to have partnered with the rad folks at Microsoft Studios, 4J Studios and of course, Mojang to bring some of our crazy cast of characters from Super Time Force to the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft as part of the sixth skin pack. Dinosaur in Hawaiian shirt? Check. Two eye-patches? Check. Bare-chested dude named Jef Leppard? Also check. We hope all of you Minecraft players enjoy suiting up as Shieldy Blockerson, Jef Leppard, Jean Rambois, Aimy McKillin, Commander Repeatski or even Zackasaurus. Kookabunga!

Last weekend Capy packed up a couple people and headed out to IndieCade 2013, held in picturesque (and never-changing) Culver City, LA. We were very happy to be showing SUPER TIME FORCE – in a firehouse no less – and enjoyed the heck out of peoples reactions. Everyone from fellow devs to youngsters to oldsters seemed to have a heck of a time blowing stuff up and traveling through time.

We were also nominated for an IndieCade Award, given out by the videogame power couple of Brenda & John Romero. The awards celebrated a lot of amazing games, and gave a Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award to the ultra-deserving Tracy Fullerton. Super Time Force was nominated for Visual Art, but lost to Kentucky Route Zero, which is a-ok by us. We were also awarded Best Level Design by the kind folks at EyewaveGames!

We also got to play a ton of amazing games (there were so many), including the hilariously fun Tenya Wanya Teens & the magical Hohokum. Coincidentally Ricky Haggett worked on both of them. Perhaps he’s a robot?

Another PAX has come and gone, so we thought we’d take a bit of time and share some of the experience with you lovely people.

We arrived and almost immediately went into OMG CRAZY RUSH SETUP mode. The evening before PAX opened, this was the result:

As the doors opened on Friday, we were immediately confronted with the sinking feeling that PAX was busier than past years. We later found out that we weren’t crazy, since more that 80,000 people attended PAX. That’s a lot of game-loving humans.

We demoed a brand new Super Time Force build, complete with a ton of crazy gameplay changes, new levels, a boss made out of poo and a couple new characters (one of whom, Squirt, is a turd who farts toxic gas you can explode via shooting). Lots of amazing & supportive fans checked it out. So did a whole bunch of press… here’s some of what they had to say:

We also joined our good pals from Harmonix on their live Podcast panel. It was a super fun super sloppy mess of a good time. We chatted with IGN, Gamespot & recorded a pretty amazing Bonus Round with the GameTrailers crew (plus some other awesome industry folk) just to name a few.

SYNCHROMA is a terribly challenging/frustrating/amazing/insane game created by Capy’s Renaud Bédard & Nick ‘Qiqo’ Stephan during the last Capy Jam. This was the first time anyone outside of the studio had played a Capy Jam game… and boy oh boy was it fun. Even some press-folk took a turn, and they ended up having some great things to say about the game:

HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to Matt Hawkins, Jon Kay and the whole FanGamer X Attract Mode crew for letting us be a part of such a rad event two years in a row.

To everyone that came by, played Super Time Force, bought a shirt (or 4+, Steve Courtney we’re looking at you) and/or hung out with us around Seattle… THANKS! We appreciated the huge amount of love we felt. See you in Boston!

IMPORTANT PAX13 FACT: We’ll have a bunch of SUPER TIME FORCE stations showing a completely new build of our totally bonkers contra-like game, including NEW LEVELS, NEW PLAYABLE CHARACTERS, NEW POWER-UPS and a lot more. Even if you’ve played it before, we highly recommend you come by and check out all the new stuff in this crazy game.

Alongside our Capy logo tees & #Sworcery tees, we’ll have a TOTALLY SWEET, TOTALLY NEW t-shirt for sale! This is the first time you’ll be able to get some beloved Capy pixels in shirt form… and we think a bazooka-toting Jef Leppard petting a Capy is putting our best pixel-foot forward:

Capy will also be selling beautiful 12×18 prints of our Into the Pixel 2013 selected piece, SUPER SUMMER VACATION FORCE:

If you’re jonesing for some sessions, consider heading to The Official Harmonix Podcast: LIVE Saturday at 11am, where Capy’s Nathan Vella will join Double Fine’s Brad Muir, Young Horseseses’ Phil Tibitoski, Darren Korb from Supergiant and the whole Harmonix Crew for some live podcasting shenanigans.

We’ll be in BOOTH #111, alongside our good pals and perennial PAX partners Double Fine. Please come by, hang out, play Super Time Force, visit with the Capy crew and enjoy the company of special guest Zac Gorman, who is going to be helping at our booth for some odd reason.

Hop on over to 6955′s Bandcamp to download the spacey, hypnotizing track from our gameplay trailer. This is just a tiny taste of Super TIME Force’s amazing soundtrack: It’s going to be mesmerizing, synthy sonic deliciousness from outer space, like wow.